Новости за 31.12.2017

Dubai celebrated the New Year Sunday with a spectacular midnight laser show at Burj Khalifa, the tallest tower in the world.

College basketball's final 3 unbeaten teams all lose on same day, leaving 1976 Indiana Hoosiers as last team to finish a season undefeated

The last Saturday of 2017 took out the last three undefeated teams in college basketball. The 1976 Indiana Hoosiers can now raise a toast to the new year. Top-ranked Villanova, No. 3 Arizona State and No. 10 TCU all suffered their first losses on the same day, leaving the Bobby Knight-led Hoosiers from 41 years ago as the last undefeated team. Villanova (13-1, 1-1 Big East) went down the same way it did last year: to Butler at Hinkle Fieldhouse. The scrappy Bulldogs had their way with the Wildcats in 2017... Читать дальше...

Reports in France claim Spurs, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Bayern Munich are all ready to pounce if given the chance to land one of the top teenage prospects in the country. 
 Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas is keen to settle the issue of the forward’s future before the end of the January transfer market. 
 Aulas has already rejected an offer of 5million euros from Red Bull Salzburg for the 6ft 1in-tall striker, who made his Lyon debut in September. 
 When he appeared in a 3-3 draw with Dijon... Читать дальше...

For the Tide, Tigers and Bulldogs, the intrigue will be about whether experience and incumbency trumps potential.

ROME — The unrest in Iran is just “the beginning of a big movement” that could be more widespread than the demonstrations of 2009, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi said in an interview Sunday.

ISLAMABAD — The Palestinians have withdrawn their envoy to Pakistan after he appeared at a rally with a radical cleric linked to the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Palestinian envoy Walid Abu Ali shared the stage with Hafiz Saeed, the head of the hard-line Jamaat-ud-Dawa movement, at Friday’s rally, which was held to protest U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The rally in Rawalpindi, attended by thousands, was organized by the Defense of Pakistan Council, an... Читать дальше...

The Cal women’s basketball team picked an inopportune time to play its worst game of the season. Competing for national attention with only one other top-20 showcase game Sunday, the No. 20 Bears laid an absolute stinker in an 82-46 to 11th-ranked UCLA at Haas Pavilion. Cal (10-3, 1-1 Pac-12) put up a season-low point total on a season-worst 28.6 percent shooting, including missing its final 11 three-point attempts, and committed 24 turnovers to a season-low nine... Читать дальше...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — An explosion at a funeral in Afghanistan’s restive east on Sunday killed at least 18 mourners and wounded another 13, officials said, capping a deadly year for ordinary Afghans. 

Threats against journalists were at “epidemic levels” in 2017, according to a report from the International Federation of Journalists.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards‘ husband Mauricio Umansky is speaking out in the wake of news that the couple’s home was burglarized over the holidays.

Thomson Reuters

• Police responded to reports of a disturbance in Littleton, Colorado on Sunday.
• One officer died after a suspect fired multiple shots. Four officers and two civilians were also injured.
• The suspect was shot and killed, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said.

One officer was killed and four others were injured Sunday when police responded to a disturbance in Littleton, Colorado and a gunman opened fire.

Two civilians also sustained non-life threatening injuries. Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on a man arrested at a Houston hotel with several guns in his room (all times local): 2:45 p.m. Houston police say they don't believe an intoxicated man arrested for having several guns in his hotel room intended to use the weapons. Investigators say security officers called police after the man became belligerent and refused to be leave the bar at downtown Houston's Hyatt Regency Hotel. The hotel's annual New Year's Eve party is one of the city's largest. Police say responding officers found a rifle... Читать дальше...

The two guard has started his version of training camp, and if he can get through the week with no setbacks then his return can be sooner than later.

Universal Pictures

Another year is about to end, and as we all praise the movies that we loved (and made billions), it's also a time to look back on the ones that didn't turn out so great.

The list of 2017's worst-reviewed movies has a little bit of everything in it: the colossal box office duds, the movies that became nothing more than a joke on social media, and the one that cost its director a "Star Wars" movie.

Here are the 25 worst-reviewed movies of 2017, as rated by critics' scores on Metacritic:

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FOUNTAIN INN, S.C. (AP) — Authorities say they are investigating the death of a 51-year-old woman who appeared to either fall out of or be shoved out of a moving vehicle during an argument. Greenville County Deputy Coroner Kent Dill said Donice McClain died Saturday at the hospital, a day after she was injured at her daughter's home in Fountain Inn. Dill says McClain was arguing with the driver of the vehicle when she fell out. An autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday. Dill did not identify the driver in his statement. Читать дальше...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The National Weather Service has wind chill advisories in effect across Indiana on New Year's Eve. Weather service forecasters in Indianapolis said Sunday to expect wind chills from -25 to -15 Sunday through Tuesday night. Lows Sunday night were forecast at between -12 and -1 in central Indiana. Forecasters say the potential exists for multiple nights of subzero low temperatures and wind chills. The weather service says wind chills as low as -25 are possible in parts of northern Indiana. Читать дальше...

BERLIN — Germans have rarely been so divided about the changes taking place in their society, longtime leader Angela Merkel said Sunday, adding in her New Year’s address that she is committed to helping tackle the challenges of the future by swiftly forming a new government. Germany has been in political limbo since elections in September, which saw heavy losses for the centrist “grand coalition” that has run the country since 2013. Merkel’s attempt to forge a new government with two smaller parties failed... Читать дальше...

Amber Heard and Elon Musk are spending more and more time together.

The former couple was seen vacationing together in Chile and enjoying dinner with friends who included the Tesla CEO’s brother Kimbal Musk.

The restaurant they were dining at, El Taringa, posted a photo of the crew with the actress and Musk sitting side-by-side in the left-hand corner of the photo on Friday night. Heard, 31, was looking down at the table while Musk, 46, enjoyed conversation with their fellow diners. Читать дальше...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The largest protests to strike Iran in nearly a decade continued unabated Sunday, despite a government move to block access to Instagram and a popular messaging app used by activists to organize, with even President Hassan Rouhani acknowledging the public's anger over the Islamic Republic's flagging economy. Rouhani and other leaders made a point to warn that the government wouldn't hesitate to crack down on those it considers lawbreakers amid the demonstrations, which began Thursday over the economic woes plaguing Iran. Читать дальше...

I Don’t Want This Poem to End

Mahmoud Darwish

Translated by Mohammad Shaheen 

US: Interlink Books, 2017

Pp. 242

This is a book to be treasured. Titled after Mahmoud Darwish’s last poem, it includes previously unpublished poems found by his friends at his house in Amman, soon after his death, as well as older ones. The poetry is supplemented by Darwish’s essay on exile, a letter to his brother when he was first imprisoned in 1965, an interview and commentary by... Читать дальше...